You made a post on cybergamer regarding our selection process, so I thought I would address it here since I don't have a cybergamer account along with some other posts.
Here is your quote from cybergamer.
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Why no Supremacy players or more different teams at least? I would've though you would expand your reach beyond 3-4 teams...especially since we declined some of these players and also bet their team(s).
Unfortunately we do did not invite players on a team basis, we invited the players we like to watch and also have consistent results in the SEA area, specifically Australia. So teams really do not make a difference here as it is a 1v1 tournament. In terms of your team "declining" players I'll give you the list of non nRv people we chose to invite.
No offence to you, but I highly doubt these players applied for supremacy and if they did I definitely doubt you would decline them.
To other people who are wondering the selection process we wanted a rounded tournament. There is no doubt that if Pickle actually picked the players with the highest rankings in Australia/SEA the entire tournament would be mainly ZvZ. We did not want this and tried to pick players from each race to enable more variety with the matchups and hopefully make it more interesting for the viewers/players. People like tgun, Jazbas, Pokerface, Edge and Ninja (to name maybe half of the zergs) missed out due to this.
I hope this clears up some of the concerns regarding our selection process!
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